WindowTop/WindowTop-App

Set window on top, make it dark, transparent and more

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README

WindowTop

Optimize your productivity by making windows Always-On-Top. By switching windows super fast using Anchors. By using & watching multiple windows at the same time using Picture-In-Picture (PiP) mode and enabling night mode (dark-mode) for any window.

https://windowtop.info/

WindowTop - Latest Version (For Windows 10 version 2004 and later, and for Windows 11)

WindowTop v3.3.10 (For Windows 10, Windows 7)

Screenshots

Toolbar & Hotkeys settings

Features

Set window on top (Always on Top)

Toggle Always-on-Top via toolbar. You can also use the hotkey ALT+Z or change it in settings	Toggle option to temporarily disable AOT when the window is maximized. This option can be enabled by default

Anchors (Alt-Tab alternative)

Easily switch between windows using anchors. You can also configure a hotkey to toggle it on/off.	You can drag a file to the floating icon. This will bring its window to the foreground so you can drag the file to that window.
Mouse middle-click (wheel button): this will close the window (*Default)	Mouse right-click: this will minimize the window (*Default)
Anchor for PiP window without cropping enabled	Anchor for PiP window with cropping enabled

PiP (Picture in Picture) and Crop

With PiP, you can easily change the window to an interactive thumbnail, control it with the mouse and keyboard, and crop it.	Interact mode lets you see a bigger preview with your mouse cursor above the window. So you don’t have to make the PiP bigger to see where you click or read.
PiP also allows hiding the original window (*Default)	Or you can configure it so as not to hide the original window. You can configure the default behavior and also toggle it via the toolbar.
You can drag the PiP view when the mouse is not above some text. The function treats it as a text-selection operation when it is above text.	PiP also includes an auto-move function that automatically moves the PiP view away from any text or image on the screen.

Crop

The PiP feature also comes with a crop function that allows you to activate the crop directly from the native window. This includes everything else that comes with PiP, such as mouse interaction, etc.	You can modify the crop selection directly from the native window (if “Show original window” is enabled) and instantly see the result on the PiP view.
PiP also allows hiding the original window (*Default)	Crop without hiding the original window

Opacity

Opacity-feature-demo

Easily adjust window transparency and even enable click-throws, and there is an additional option to temporarily turn off transparency when the mouse is above the window. These options can be enabled via hotkeys.

Opacity-Click-Through-Demo

Use case example of transparency with click-through enabled.

Dark Mode

Glass Mode

More Toolbars

Hotkeys settings

Hotkeys

Disable on Game Mode & Exclude/Include programs

Supported Operating Systems

From v4.x.x, Windows 7 and before are no longer supported. Before v4.x.x, Windows 7 is also supported.

Only Windows 10 and Windows 11 are supported for v4.x.x and later. It may also work on Windows 8, but it was never tested.

Only 64-bit versions of Windows are supported (WindowTop is 64-bit only)

Purchasing

You can purchase WindowTop from here:
https://windowtop.info/purchase/
You can start a 30 day trial before you decide if you want to purchase it.

Developer

Gil Eliyahu ([email protected])

Significant stargazers

Maged Saeed

198 followers · starred Jun 2019

Vincent Zhang

445 followers · starred Sep 2023

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